First read: New books from Harry Potter (!) to Laverne DeFazio

1:29 PM,
Sep. 14, 2012

Written by

Anne Bendheim
| @AnneBendheim

The mail gods were good to us today. An enormous (really, really big), flat cardboard container was so heavy, we had to ask for help in transporting it to our desk. A plain brown wrapper, with no hint of what lurked inside. But one box knife slash, and all was revealed. Wow-ee (exclamation point). Before I could say "Expelliarmus," two books, each a hefty 12-by-16-inch size, plopped onto the desk top. Harry Potter had arrived in New Jersey, specifically to dazzle us.